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By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LEBANON — Willow Raymond and her mother, Crystal Kerin-Herrick, sat in a classroom Friday morning at Ledyard Charter School eating brunch prepared by the 10th grader’s peers.Raymond, 15, is in her second year at Ledyard and her favorite subject is...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

LYME — CommunityCare of Lyme will host a volunteer potluck meal on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.The event ties in with the roots of the federal holiday which was established by Congress in 1983 as a “national day of service.” It will take place from 5...

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WOODSTOCK — The town will conduct all of its Town Meeting business using Australian ballot voting this year.On Monday night, the Woodstock Selectboard voted to employ Act 1, a law that grants town governing bodies the “temporary authority” to change...

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HANOVER — This winter there will be another outdoor rink for ice skaters to visit in the Upper Valley: the Dartmouth Green.Dartmouth College is opening the rink to the public. The last time there was a rink on the Green was winter 2021. During the...

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NORWICH — On the second floor of the Montshire Museum of Science last week, a group of schoolchildren was hard at work building with wooden toys.They constructed railroads, roads and some cabins. Then, the table beneath the structures began to shift...

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WOODSTOCK — Nearly 50 Woodstock-area residents will join together Sunday to perform a staged reading titled “Tales of Old Woodstock,” which focuses on the town’s first 100 years.The event features monologues from the “Woodstock Anthology” written by...

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CANAAN VILLAGE — On the evening of June 2, 1923, after a fire had taken out most of their town center, Canaan residents gathered at the one church still standing downtown to pray.One hundred years later, on Friday morning at 10:30 a.m., residents will...

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ENFIELD — Two new businesses will soon be opening on Route 4 in Enfield.Sean and Kirby Bonnell are opening Energizing Edge — an energizing tea and shake shop — and Athletic Edge — a 24-hour gym — next to Ziggy’s Pizza. The space was previously...

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Over the last couple years, Hartland resident Linda Genovese has repeatedly fielded an important question by community members: When are the roast beef suppers coming back? Now, Genovese has an answer: The regionally lauded Hartland Roast Beef Suppers...

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PLAINFIELD — A developer looking to subdivide around 140 acres of land to build 11 single-family homes in Plainfield will go before the town’s Zoning Board on Monday night.Michael Venditto has appealed a Plainfield Planning Board decision that would...

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GRANTHAM — Those who are facing food insecurity in Grantham no longer have to travel to other towns for nonperishable goods.Last month, the Grantham Food Pantry opened at the Grantham United Methodist Church, at 418 Route 10. It is open from 9 to 11...

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NORWICH — When Walter Chesnut lost a chess match to Alexander Collins at the Vermont Open last weekend, he was pleasantly amazed.“I had not been dismantled so efficiently that way in a very long time,” said Chesnut, who organizes the statewide...

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ENFIELD — Developers are proposing building 162 apartments off Route 4 in Enfield. The one- and two-bedroom market-rate apartments would be spread evenly among three new buildings on the 77-acre Laramie Farms property on Route 4 and Maple Street,...

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CANAAN — Canaan has hired a new town administrator to replace longtime leader Mike Samson.Ned Connell, previously an administrator in Coventry, Vt., will begin his new role on Oct. 3, the Selectboard announced at its Sept. 6 meeting. Samson’s last day...

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ETNA — The bright loft overlooking the aisles of the Etna Country Store looks like a typical living room. There’s a couch, a TV and children’s toys. Light streaming through a large window paints the wooden floors and walls with a glow.The room might...

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HANOVER — After nearly a year and no profits to show for it, an Upper Valley delivery co-op has gone out of business.The Upper Valley Eateries and Retail Consumer Cooperative Society, better known as UVER, was started by three Hanover restaurant...

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LEBANON — The last few years have been tough for Lebanon High School’s Science Olympiad team.The COVID-19 pandemic cut their 2020 season short. In 2021, the team was smaller and did not have any new members.But this year is different: For the first...

By LIZ SAUCHELLI

Multiple Upper Valley schools will be closed this week, some of them for multiple days, because of rising numbers of COVID-19 cases among staff and students.Schools in the Orange East Supervisory Union including Thetford Elementary, Bradford...

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HANOVER — If you live in the Upper Valley, you’re probably well-acquainted with ticks and the risks they pose.Images of the parasites at various stages in their lifespans — larva, nymph and adult, including male and female — taken using a scanning...

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WOODSTOCK — The Mexican-American War of 1846-1848 is often overshadowed by the Civil War, which started fewer than 15 years later.It’s also often confused with the Texas Revolution, which took place 10 years earlier and featured the famed Battle of...

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Few wildlife topics inspire passion in the Twin States quite like the debate over whether mountain lions are in our midst.I am fascinated by people who are fascinated by mountain lions, as well as the fervor that follows when someone asks if mountain...